To small details in a racing vessel's outfit the Americans give much more consideration than British yachtsmen think necessary.
The year was an important one in its annals, for some of the best known of yachtsmen became members of the community.
The best school possible is actual racing, and when we present to our yachtsmen a racing list as long as that published in England, then we can hope to have captains and men fit to hold their own.
A very good account is handed to us of how yachtsmen more than half a century since--in 1830--enjoyed a real rough day's sailing on the Thames.
Prominent among these skilled yachtsmen in New York is Mr. E.
As the day approached the excitement became intense; yachtsmen and sportsmen flocked to New York from all parts of the country.
It has a club-house at Lowestoft which is a great convenience to yachtsmen using the harbour, but as a river club it has not much vitality.
In 1887 a most determined and well-planned movement was made by Scottish yachtsmen against the 'America' Cup.
The time limit was reached before two-thirds of the course were covered, and yachtsmen as well as spectators returned utterly disgusted.
I find that few yachtsmen make a study of anchoring; mostly because they anchor in places where there is little to be feared either from wind or sea.
In a strong blow, such as yachtsmen generally describe as a gale, the wind pressure is only about five pounds to the square foot, while in an ordinary breeze, such as usually blows in summer, the pressure is scant of a pound.
A third time they made the transit; and on this occasion one of the yachtsmen carried a leather portmanteau, and the others a lady's trunk and carriage bag.
A little afterwards, four yachtsmen carrying a very heavy chest, and guided by a fifth with a lantern, passed close in front of me as I lay, and were admitted to the pavilion by the nurse.
The 'Nora,' built in 1880 for those keen racingyachtsmen of the Clyde, the Messrs.
We are advised in these matters by sailmakers, who look to the Solent and its sheltered water as the normal condition with which yachtsmen have to deal.
The cruises of Corinthian yachtsmen are naturally chiefly confined to the estuaries of rivers and the seas immediately adjacent, and, as a rule, are within sight of the coast.
The method adopted by American yachtsmen for setting the spinnaker has many points in its favour.
Amateur yachtsmen are scattered, and find it difficult to take their cruises together in any large numbers.
The evolution in the small classes has been more rapid, and in 1892 some rather undesirable types were prize-winners, and yachtsmen who wished to protect themselves against similar vessels in the large classes induced the Y.
Yachtsmen have been deterred from going to sufficient tonnage by considerations of expense.
The Clyde yachtsmen were the first to appreciate the value and capabilities of the little ships for affording good all-round sport, and the small expenditure entailed at that date in building them was a consideration in their favour.
The conditions under which the cup is held, however, appear to unduly favour the holders, and do not commend themselves to yachtsmen on this side of the Atlantic.
This would also make yachtsmen anxious to possess not merely a racing machine, but a boat capable of going from port to port with a certain amount of comfort to her crew.
It must have been a party of yachtsmen that used this place last.
A thin column of smoke that presently wreathed out of a funnel in the cabin indicated that the yachtsmen were cooking a meal in the galley aboard.
By the light of the cabin lamp, that night, the yachtsmenaboard the Mollie studied the Nanticoke river on their chart.
The young yachtsmen recognized her for what she was, a smart sea boat; and they went to work with a will to assist in getting her ready for cruising.
Into the midst of this distracted group came a sudden rush of men from the boats, which were arriving every minute, the young yachtsmen at their head.
The three young yachtsmen alone waited, a group of dark figures about her.
The young yachtsmen made a last effort, calling out Walter's name.
The young yachtsmennever said a word, but looked at each other and flew along over the blood-red water.
Roosevelt, who has been so efficient and untiring in his capacity as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, charged that yachtsmen were not helping the government, and were holding their craft for high prices.
There were yachtsmen who, in addition to giving their boats, defrayed the cost of maintenance.
Hundreds of sailors, fishermen, seafaring men generally, and yachtsmen joined the Naval Coast Defense Reserve, which proved to be an extremely popular branch of the service with college men.
Yachtsmen should thoroughly learn and understand these rules, and should always maintain and obey them.
Sailing is one of the safest of our sports; very fewyachtsmen lose their lives while boating.
I have met thousands of yachtsmen during my long service in the sport, but of all my acquaintances I can only recall one who was drowned.
Among other ways to help Labrador we had always tried to induce tourists and yachtsmen to come and visit us.
It has always been a puzzle to me why so few tourists and yachtsmen visit the south and west coast of Ireland.
The yachtsmen paid visits to each other, and then to the men-of-war; and to do the French officers justice, they treated us with the very greatest attention.
I should advise all timid yachtsmen to keep clear of Jersey, for what with the rapid tides, and rocks innumerable, it is a very ticklish locality.
We yachtsmen had, indeed, reason to feel not a little proud of the display made by our peaceable crafts on the occasion.
Well, you yachtsmen do live like princes," quoth the young gentleman, as he quaffed his cool claret.
As our yachtsmen had had no practice with their guns, they were not particularly good shots, so that none of them surpassed Bubble in the accuracy of their aim, greatly to his delight.
Brother yachtsmen who may glance your eye over these pages, meditate seriously on this matter.
Our jolly yachtsmendid not require a second summons.
Unfortunately for yachtsmen who love the picturesque, and for whom comparatively quiet Sidmouth would have attractions, there is no harbour.
It is with real regret that most yachtsmen leave Torquay and the beautiful bay which lies between Hope’s Nose to the north and Berry Head to the south.
There is, unfortunately, no harbour, and so it is much less visited by yachtsmen than it would otherwise be.
The Viking was not molested through the night, though so wearied were the yachtsmen with their day's sailing that a man might have come aboard blowing a fog-horn and not have aroused them from their deep slumber.
And now that the yachtsmen had retired for the night and Mr. Carleton had withdrawn to his room, it is just barely possible that he may have recalled that fact.
His search was rewarded, for his hand rested presently on the blade of a small hatchet, which was used by the yachtsmen for all sorts of work, from chopping bait to splitting kindling.
Carefully stowing away every pail or oar or stick that could be in the way at the wrong time and make a noise, the yachtsmen brought the Viking close in upon the dismasted Surprise.
The next moment the young yachtsmen got a rude surprise.
The two yachtsmen were carrying, between them, a big basket of clams, which they had just dug on the flats at the head of the cove.
The answer the man made was to order the two youths to work the "pinkey," as the fishermen call his style of craft, up to the buoy, where he could cut the yachtsmen adrift.
And the yachtsmen realized there was no answer to this.
Yachtsmen aboard their craft in the harbour had ceased bawling out across the water to one another, and no songs issued forth from any cabin.
The excitement of the boys had attracted more or less notice, and the people on the streets looked at the three young yachtsmenwith interest.
There were no indications that the serenading yachtsmen were becoming tired of their method of killing time during a fog-bound evening.
But after the yachtsmen had looked him over they went out, making the affair a subject for ridicule.
Besides, you may find those yachtsmen on your back for damages, providing you get her in where she can be libeled.
The visiting yachtsmen had flooded the place with messages, and the flustered young woman was in a condition nearly resembling hysteria.
All the tenders were burning Coston lights, and from several boats yachtsmen were sending off rockets which striped the pall of fog with bizarre colorings.
The girl came to the rail, and the yachtsmen stared at her as if she were Aphrodite risen from the sea instead of a mighty pretty girl emerging from a dark companion-way.
Just then the accredited minstrel of the yachtsmen stood up, balancing himself in a tender.
He toiled in partial delirium, and it seemed to him that he was looking again at the phantasmagoria of the Coston lights on the fog when the yachtsmen were serenading the girl of the Polly.
Therefore the playful yachtsmen were highly entertained and stayed to bait him still further.
And it is to this circumstance, most probably, we are indebted for as expert a body of yachtsmen as there is anywhere in the United States.
The yachtsmen must have confidence in themselves, and must have boats under them which are seaworthy and staunch enough to keep on their course, regardless of adverse circumstances.
The bruised and subdued yachtsmen were placed in their separate cells, fettered to great iron rings, and left to cogitate over their probable fate.
And while three anxious yachtsmen on the cliff-top waited for her return, a hundred and twenty hungry and thirsty baffled ruffians on the sloop cursed her vehemently in their hoarse, dry throats.
The yachtsmen turned dizzy with the awfulness of the man's end; but they could not take their fascinated eyes from the scene.
She waited for the rope end, and when Spotted Dog brought it aft, on the weather side, passing clear from the gaff to leeward, under the keel and up to windward, she stood aside so that the yachtsmen could witness all.
Again chained to the mainmast, the three yachtsmen stood gloomily regarding Dolores, whose capable, battle-wise fingers now performed a task more in keeping with her sex and charm.
And as the boat swept alongside and the yachtsmen began to experience the thrill of near expectancy, Pearse caught sight of a knot of men loitering on the nearby slopes, and their appearance startled him.
The giant was even then engaged in thwarting an inclination on the part of the yachtsmen to follow Dolores, for, her spell gone for the moment, Venner felt all an owner's solicitude for his property.
On the level sward before the village the three yachtsmen paced back and forth in an ecstasy of apprehension.
I was thinking," he said, "that our adventures as amateur yachtsmen will not begin and end with cruising among the Western Isles of Scotland, pleasant and romantic enough though that may be.
You'll get any amount of fishing and shooting too, for wherever you three smart-looking young yachtsmen land on the coast, people will vie with each other in offering you Highland hospitality.
All the yachtsmen had agreed at Harwich to dine together at the Star Hotel at Yarmouth, where dinner had been ordered by letter beforehand, and a most pleasant evening we had.
There was a fine show of yachts at Harwich at this time, and there was a great assemblage of yachtsmen in the prime of life, many, like myself, young fellows of about twenty-three.
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